Hey man, I got your private message, however I am for the moment surprised to find that I limited to only sending 2 messages a day lol. So, I can relay this info over to you. The numbers I used for I beleive were 9's or 6's  i most always used those.  Back when I was using that wallet, most of my passwords had to do with or had some relation to D@rkweb996 or 0Ni0N9699 or _SiLKŤRoad99_ and no longer than 10 - 11 characters in length. i rememeber I also used th3se types of passwords for my email but made a point to use a special character i beleivße Cyrillic or Latin to make it a safer pw for my crypto.  ive tried my best to recover it with no luck so far,  I will PM you the .dat tomorrow when I get back to my house.  Again thank you for  helping me!

L

Hi,

I am finally going to ask and reach out for some help.  Honestly, I've done so much work, and read so many posts and learned countless methods that were very informative, insightful, opened doors to other types of recovery and restoration methods.  From brute scripts in Ruby to python BTC recover, Passware Forensic, pywallet dump and salvage commands, and on a range of pretty much all platforms, MacOS, Windows, Linux.  I've worked on computers most of my life, so a good 25-30 years in the field, supplier of Milspec components to Space and military contract manufacturers, an IT professional that has worked on many databases as well, mostly SQL to network admin and hardware / software troubleshooting.  I've always relied on myself to fix my problems, or to source and find out a way to either understand better or offer my own help to others.  I've lost my password and its been a while that I've been trying to get it back and have access to my wallet.  Its a Bitcoin-qt wallet.dat format. I've tried backing up and running -salvagewallet and got some interesting dumps, one of which looks like extended priv keys that Ive tried to decode unsuccessfully.  I've read alot of the helpful posts here on this forum and seen some successes, trials and tribulations. Today I read quite a bit, and even went back to around 2012 and read through every post until today.  It actually gave me a little hope and made me think to reach out and ask what someone could possibly do for me? Especially if I can offer a reward for their services.  Maybe someone with a bit more experience or GPU power?  I don't have a TON of btc but around $100k and another 7500-10k in other coins. Please let me know if you can offer anything at all. I am open ears for advice as I feel like I have done everything I can do on my own so far.  PM me and let me know.  Serious inquires only please, I'm sure thats understood.  Thank you for providing this forum and outlet to network, learn more and extend help and also do good for others.  I'm really happy it is available to those that need it or want to offer their skillset and professional services.  I'm grateful and would like to see this site grow more, reach others and become a thriving hub for very particular or specialized tasks.  Cryptography and technology is only going to become more prevalent and in turn more complex in nature.  I look forward to speaking with you!

Loren Blake